 | | (Chloe Ladwig/PitchBook News) | | | Last weekend, on my usual jog through Central Park, every iconic mile marker—Shakespeare Garden, Bethesda Fountain, Bow Bridge—was engulfed in violet.
NYU's graduation day had sent hoards of students in satin gowns and mortar board caps to every corner of the park, sweaty photographers in tow.
More than a third of NYU's MBA graduates go into financial services. For colleges and universities, this stream of alumni offers a point of connection to tomorrow's decision (and money) makers. Many endowments, eager to employ this competitive advantage, tap into that sea of violet when deciding where to invest.
That's certainly the case in private equity, where the alumni network offers endowments favorable fees, greater transparency into fund mechanisms and access to stronger deal sourcing. But the network's benefits don't always show up in the institutions' annual returns.
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In the last 12 months, which of the following was not a top area of VC investment for defense tech?
A) Renewable energy
B) Sensing, connectivity and security
C) Semiconductors and microelectronics
D) Biotechnology
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Our new Enterprise SaaS Report lays out the trends, segments, top deals and investors in the space. What future opportunities does the vertical hold for investors? Our inaugural report lays it all out. | | | | | | Funds are getting fatter and fewer | | Private market funds are on track to pull in less capital in 2023 than last year, based on Q1 data, and there are fewer open funds recruiting LPs. At the same time, they're getting bigger, with around 65% of funds raising more than $1 billion per year.
These trends don't bode well for emerging managers trying to raise their first funds. Our Global Private Market Fundraising Report has vital data through Q1 on seven strategies. | | | | | |  | | (EchoVisuals/Shutterstock) | | | "HSBC and [David] Sabow immediately engineered a scheme to plunder what Sabow deemed the 'core of [SVB's] profitability engine.'"
—First Citizens Bank, in a lawsuit that accuses HSBC, along with several former Silicon Valley Bank employees, of stealing trade secrets and proprietary information in the days and weeks following its collapse. | | | | | | Maasai are getting pushed off their land so Dubai royalty can shoot lions. [Bloomberg Businessweek]
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| | | | | | Answer: C)
Over the past 12 months, the top defense tech segments were renewable energy and generation ($3.9 billion), sensing, connectivity and security ($3.4 billion), and biotechnology ($3.2 billion). Explore the segment in our Defense Tech Vertical Snapshot. | | | | | |
This edition of The Weekend Pitch was written by Jessica Hamlin, Rosie Bradbury, Jacob Robbins, Emily Burleson and James Thorne. It was edited by Heather West and Laural Hobbes.
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